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Creator McMullin, Samuel, b. 1819.
Title Shortlidge's Media Academy, for young men and boys, twelve miles from depot, Thirty-first and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, on the Philadelphia and West Chester R.R. [graphic] : Recommended by Bayard Taylor, Hon. Fernando Wood, Judge Van Hoesen, Governor Routt, Rev. Drs. Hill and Peabody, Gen Chas. H.T. Collis, &c., &c. For illustrated circular containing pictures of building, gymnasium, &c., address, Switchin C. Shortlidge, A. M., (Harvard graduate), Media, Penna. / S. McMullin, photographer, 915 Sansom Street.
Publisher Philadelphia : S. McMullin
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8.5 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Faded exterior view of Switchin C. Shortlidge's boarding school for boys in Media, Pennsylvania. Students stand in small groups on the enclosed lawn near the school. School founded in 1875.
Notes Title printed on verso.
Photographer's imprint on verso.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of F.J. Dallet.
Subject Shortlidge's Media Academy for Boys.
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Media.
Geographic subject Media (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - McMullin - Education [P.9500.3]
Accession number P.9500.3